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maria38000
1 year ago

“Maybe you will be warm in this situation.” This is often omitted.

If you change the parts of the sentence, it must stay.
You’ll probably be warm.

But the “ES” in passive forms is much more interesting.

A lot of wine is drunk on the Moselle.
A lot of wine is drunk on the moss. (Here it must fall off)

Buy a good grammar book (medium). Read a lot of German, listen to radio, TV in German. Listening to what other people say – with the time you learn the peculiarities of the German language by yourself. Can take up to 20 years;-)

DaKaBo
1 year ago

This is actually a subjectless sentence. One could think of an impersonal “it” in the sentence (… it will warm you…), but it does not have to be used. The sentence also works in German, without subject.

“You can’t help” is e.g. also subjectless. Such sentences are not so rare.

maria38000
1 year ago
Reply to  zzw0819

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maria38000
1 year ago

You can also say: German is very difficult for me.

maria38000
1 year ago

Is an idiomatic expression.

ultrarunner
1 year ago

The subject would actually be “it”. (“It will warm you in this situation.”

However, this was omitted here.

DaKaBo
1 year ago
Reply to  zzw0819

Stylistic means. It sounds better. The sentence works like that.

Paguangare
1 year ago

The sentence is, “Perhaps you will be warm in this situation.”

Where’s the subject? Good question. There is no acting subject that “powers”, nothing that stands in the nominative.

And the verb is “become” or “bewarm”.

The person who is supposedly warm is in the Dativ: Who is warm? She’s passive, something happens to her. And there’s no perpetrator.

If I had to decide what word is most likely to be a subject, I would choose “been”.

ultrarunner
1 year ago
Reply to  Paguangare

Since “been” is in the Dativ, it cannot be the subject.

Paguangare
1 year ago
Reply to  ultrarunner

I see this problem. But then either the sentence has no subject, or it is a silent, unnamed subject called “es”:

Probable [es] You warm in this situation.”

Who or what will you warm in this situation?

AriZona04
1 year ago

After the subject you always ask “who or what”. So ask it – and you know it.

DaKaBo
1 year ago
Reply to  AriZona04

Where is the subject?

AriZona04
1 year ago
Reply to  DaKaBo

… laugh: Did it hide?

DaKaBo
1 year ago

Yes, sorry, I mean “without subject.” I prescribed. The predicate is “is”.

AriZona04
1 year ago

Without a predicate? You mean, without subject. The predicate here is “help”.

DaKaBo
1 year ago

Such statements with “ever” and “principal” are to be enjoyed with caution. In most cases, sentences have a subject and a predicate. There are exceptions:

https://english-language.maxklug.de/erklaerungen/satzbestimmung/subject/gabe-es-saetze-ohne-einject

And the sentence of the questioner is such an exception.

Or remember:

Help me!

You can’t help.

All without predicate, sentences are still. So please be careful with such basic statements.

AriZona04
1 year ago

But my teacher taught me that differently. And he knew what he did.

DaKaBo
1 year ago

No, there are sentences without subject.

AriZona04
1 year ago

Then it wouldn’t be a sentence. Right? Well – in itself it is also a question – and no sentence.

A sentence basically consists of a subject and a verb. Otherwise, it’s Umgan’s language.

DaKaBo
1 year ago

The sentence is subjectless.